A characterization of the data, including its intended use and limitations.

Abstract:

This data series contains 3724 2009 1-foot natural color digital orthoimage tiles. The data cover almost all of Boundary County, Idaho, a portion of Lincoln County, Montana, a portion of Pend Oreille County, Washington, and north of the border into Canada. These data were provided to INSIDE Idaho by the U.S. Geological Survey.
For this dataset, the natural color orthoimages were produced at 0.3-meter pixel resolution (approximately 1-foot). The design accuracy is estimated not to exceed 6 meter horizontal RMSE for locations within the United States. Each orthoimage provides imagery for a 1500-meter by 1500-meter block on the ground. The projected coordinate system is UTM with a NAD83 datum, spheroid GRS80. There is no image overlap between adjacent files. The naming convention is based on the U.S. National Grid (USNG), taking the coordinates of the SW corner of the orthoimage.

Purpose:

These data have been created as a result of the need for having geospatial data immediately available and easily accessible in order to provide geographic reference for federal, state, and local emergency responders, as well as for homeland security efforts. Orthoimages also serve a variety of purposes, from interim maps to field references for earth science investigations and analysis. The digital orthoimage is useful as a layer of a geographic information system. These data can be used to provide reference information for web browsers and for map applications at a scale of 1:100,000 or smaller.

Dataset credit:

3001, Inc.

Language of dataset: en

Data Type

How the data are represented, formatted and maintained by the data producing organization.

Keyword thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Place:

Keywords: Idaho British Columbia

Keyword thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System

Place:

Keywords: AOI #006

Keyword thesaurus: None

Place:

Keywords: OBP Sector Spokane

Keyword thesaurus: None

Place:

Keywords: B006

Keyword thesaurus: None

Data Access Constraints

Restrictions and legal prerequisites for accessing or using the data after access is granted.

Access constraints:

Any downloading and use of these data signifies a users agreement to comprehension and compliance of the U.S. Government Standard Disclaimer. Insure all portions of metadata are read and clearly understood before using these data in order to protect both user and U.S. Government interests.

Use constraints:

There is no guarantee of warranty concerning the accuracy of the data. Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and that some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical applications without a full awareness of its limitations. Acknowledgement of the originating agencies would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Any user who modifies the data is obligated to describe the types of modifications they perform. User specifically agrees not to misrepresent the data, nor to imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by the U.S. Government.

Data Security Information

Handling restrictions imposed on the data because of national security, privacy or other concerns.

Security classifiction system: None

Security classification: Unclassified

Security handling: N/A

Spatial Reference Information

Spatial Domain

The geographic areal domain of the data that describes the western, eastern, northern, and southern geographic limits of data coverage.

Bounding Coordinates

In Projected or local coordinates

Boundary

Coordinate

Left

491510.182250

Right

619919.647055

Top

5444773.301599

Bottom

5379154.037797

In Unprojected coordinates (geographic)

Boundary

Coordinate

West

-117.116436 (longitude)

East

-115.355686 (longitude)

North

49.155780 (latitude)

South

48.554010 (latitude)

Data Distribution Information

General

Description of the data known by the party from whom the data may be obtained, liability of party distributing data, and technical capabilities required to use the data.

Distribution liability:

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Idaho Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.

Distribution Point of Contact

Contact information for the individual or organization distributing the data.

Description: This metadata is displayed using the FGDC Plus Stylesheet, which is an XSL template that can be used with ArcGIS software to display metadata. It displays metadata elements defined in the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) - aka FGDC Standard, the ESRI Profile of CSDGM, the Biological Data Profile of CSDGM, and the Shoreline Data Profile of CSDGM. CSDGM is the US Federal Metadata standard. The Federal Geographic Data Committee originally adopted the CSDGM in 1994 and revised it in 1998. According to Executive Order 12096 all Federal agencies are ordered to use this standard to document geospatial data created as of January, 1995. The standard is often referred to as the FGDC Metadata Standard and has been implemented beyond the federal level with State and local governments adopting the metadata standard as well.
The Biological Data Profile broadens the application of the CSDGM so that it is more easily applied to biological data that are not explicitly geographic (laboratory results, field notes, specimen collections, research reports) but can be associated with a geographic location. Includes taxonomical vocabulary. The Shoreline Data Profile addresses variability in the definition and mapping of shorelines by providing a standardized set of terms and data elements required to support metadata for shoreline and coastal data sets. The FGDC Plus Stylesheet includes the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. It supports W3C DOM compatible browsers such as IE7, IE6, Netscape 7, and Mozilla Firefox. It is in the public domain and may be freely used, modified, and redistributed. It is provided "AS-IS" without warranty or technical support.

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